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Shakespeare from the
Cheap Seats
What was it like to see
Macbeth on opening night? The Globe theater, where many Renaissance
playwrights staged their work, burned down hundreds of years ago, but you
can still visit it on the Internet. Drop into Shakespeare’s Globe to find
out what view of the stage you might have had in 1611. Then, take the
virtual tour to see the theater as it has been rebuilt
today.
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Special
Effects
Long before digital scenery and
multichannel audio, special effects were accomplished with bare hands and
in front of real audiences. Renaissance theatergoers would gasp as actors
vanished, lightning flashed, and thunder boomed in their ears. Switch on
these animated models and witness some ingenious stage effects that are
still in use today. You may even trade your next movie pass for a seat at
the theater.
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Pomp and Pageantry:
Corsets, Smocks, and Farthingales
Rich,
elaborate, and expensive costumes were a chief delight of Elizabethan
theater audiences. But until you’ve seen a corset constructed from the
ground up, you can’t know what style meant to these people. Visit the
Elizabethan Costuming Page and learn just how complicated clothing can get
when whalebone is involved.
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Crossing the Curriculum:
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Anyone for a Game of
Gleek?
You wouldn’t want to go to the theater
every night of your life, and neither did the Elizabethans. Visit this
site produced by high school students to find out about the sports,
fashions, games and parties that kept the Renaissance running late into
the night. If that much entertainment sounds too good to be true, check
out Crime and Punishment to see what happened when the party was
over.
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